Requisite holism - Precondition of reliable business information

Kybernetes

Volumn 36, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 319-332

  Mulej, Matjaz ^a   Potocan, Vojko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Business planning; Cybernetics; Error handling; Information management; Innovation

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; CYBERNETICS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INNOVATION; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; PLANNING; SYSTEM THEORY;

BUSINESS PLANNING; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; ERROR HANDLING; INFORMATION RELIABILITY; INFORMATION REQUIREMENT; NON-TECHNICAL INNOVATION; NON-TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS; RELIABILITY OF INFORMATION;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 34249047918     PISSN: 0368492X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03684920710746986     Document Type: Article

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